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I think SS has really become a non-issue, or maybe more accurately a deflecting issue . . . . polls have shown over and over that voters do not want the government to tinker with Social Security, and as a result few if any lawmakers are doing anything to promote Bush's proposed changes. Everybody seems to be taking the safe route and staying away from it. Politics being what it is, I really doubt that any of the current noise being make about SS is going to amount to anything.
Why then does Bush continue to talk about it? Maybe because it's a safe topic and it keeps people occupied and arguing and distracted from other more important topics, like Medicare, which (unlike Social Security) really is an urgent problem, as is health care in general in the U.S. Bush's Medicare drug law is awful; it amounts to corporate welfare that hasn't done much besides increase drug prices.
So keeping Social Security in the spotlight seems like a pointless red herring that's doing little while distracting from the real issues.
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